Tagged: Weird news

8:09am

Thu December 20, 2012
Food

Environmental study: Mealworms beat meat for a place on the menu

Originally published on Thu December 20, 2012 6:04 am

Credit Ed Oudenaarden / AFP/Getty Images

Want to eat sustainably? Then eat bugs.

That's the word from the Dutch, who are doing their best to make a scientific case for the environmental benefits of insect proteins. Reduce greenhouse gases? Check. Produce more edible protein while using less land than more traditional livestock? Check.

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1:42pm

Wed December 14, 2011
Other News

Thousands of birds make crash landing in Utah

ST. GEORGE, Utah — Thousands of migratory birds are dead or injured after they apparently mistook a Wal-Mart parking lot, football fields, highways and other areas of southern Utah for bodies of water and plummeted to the ground.

One state wildlife expert is calling it the worst downing she'd ever seen.

Crews went to work cleaning up the dead birds and rescuing the injured survivors after the creatures crash-landed in the St. George area Monday night.

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